500 years ago, on August 13, 1521, the Spanish conquistadors, after a three-month siege, took Tenochtitlan: the capital of the Aztec state. This event became the starting point for the conquest of modern-day Mexico.
Today we will speak about the conquistadors (in light of these historical chronicles and archival documents of the 16th century), as well as the components that made up their spiritual world and how they initially perceived a completely new reality for them.
What saints did the conquistadors pray to and why did they decide to conquer Mexico? What was the ethnic, regional, and age composition of the Conquista? Anastasia KALUTA, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Junior Researcher of the Saint Petersburg Institute of History of Russian Academy of Sciences, answers these and many other questions related to the conquest of Mexico.
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